., the company Blackstone created to manage its rental homes and took public in January, says it spent an average of $25,000 fixing up each of the foreclosed homes it bought.The bulk-buying brought blighted properties back to life and helped speed the recovery of some of the regions hardest hit by the housing crisis.

I have included towns with two families in the Bergen County region. 

Ask Billboard companies in that region what they pay for an sign with those traffic counts.  

The same salary in any of the other of the other contending regions would go a whole lot further (even just outside DC).

and only when you understand this should you map it to a strategy that is in line with your unique skills and motivations3) You will need discipline and an execution plan - being your own boss is great but you also need to figure out how to be your own best employee4) Define a plan and set interim milestones - being an entrepreneur can be a lonely profession and success is not a straight line so plan for getting yourself some small wins and maintain a long term perspective to help get you past short term challenges.5) Understand what constraints leaving full time employment will eliminate e.g. more time to focus on real estate, and what constraints it will introduce e.g. less income and ability to get credit6) Understand that you will need a team to succeed so make sure that the people in your life on whom you depend on for support are fully behind youHere is an article that I wrote that might be of additional help - https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/11782/88425-want-success-here-are-ten-things-you-must-give-upGood luck, going on your own has got enormous upside potential but it is not pain free.

I am in a unique position to turn 15+ acres into a rental Subdivision, not apartments but many SFH and a few duplexes.

If the first comes and when the new rent posts she owes $601 with the late fee you get that eviction filed and prosecute it until she's either out or 100% caught up.The law here in Maryland is very unique in that we can take partial payments all the way up until the sheriff is at their door.

when you go inland its Pine.. but the Pine beetle has devastated millions upon millions of acres of timber land.. for those timber owners they got wiped out by a bug. so far so good in the Doug fir regions nothing kills them but a chain saw.

Spain is divided into autonomous regions, bit like your states in the US.

Or just at this one particular regional bank?